The overlooked heros of marvel

while were busy going crazy over spiderman we forget about these other hard working heroes

spider man, the hulk ,thor ,daredevil ,and capatin america marvels great superheores with big movie deals, toys ,cartoons, hats, socks, underwear,and cereal these guys are the big ones marvels top money makers ask any kid (or adult) about them and thell now exactly who your talking about...but if your a comic fan like me you take time to appreciate the other guys that fit into the skin tight suits and risk there necks to keep us safe with little to no reward they are ...THE OVER LOOKED UNDERAPRECIATED HEROES OF MARVEL COMICS...

Now without further to do lets introduce our first hero

1.Overlooked hero number one!
the human fly! the human fly the most daring superhero of all because hes real!... real? well at least thats what the comics cover claimed. when i did some further reaserch on him i figured out the human fly was actually a real person who was from canada who did actuall stunts. there is a great deal of mystery surrounding the human fly. considering i could only find one web site in the internet that acctually proved his ecxistence.wikipedia didnt list him either. starnge but i did find a web site witha picture and an account of meeting the human fly ... they siad that he would never took his mask on but reveld the human fly to be a canadian stunt man named rick rojjat.his name was never revealed in the comics but in issue 16 they showed a special page that featured the human fly at the marvel bullpen shaking hands with stan lee and the artsit and writter of his comic.he also had a guy with him in a wierd costume called lightning boy who was his "sidekick" no info on him on the web either now i found it sort of starnge that a carachter who stood on top of a commercial jetliner as it was taking of(yah he really did that!) and wore a costume everywere and would not reveal his true identity is very starnge considering now one remembers him i would think more people would know who he was!and he would be more in the mainstream pop culture circle. in the human fly comic book it says that the human fly broke every bone in his body in a car accident and had them replaced with steel bones and able to do braeth taking stunts. though te steel bones part is incorrect rick rojjat actually did breack every bone in his body in a car crash.what happend to the human fly? by issue 20 or so he was canceld and never was heard from agian.

2.overlooked hero number two!
machine man!
poor arron stack, confused...livivng in a world he does not undertsand.why? he is a robot, a robot created by jack kirby after his return to marvel in the mid 70s after trying his hand at dc comics. the position did not suit him well and he returnd to marvel and created many new heores... the eterrnals and more that has slipped my mind but one other was machime man.a purple robot drwn by jack kirby and written by him until about the tenth issue when steve ditko took over for art. arron stack lived a boring life other than his job at an inshurance company and annoying co worker errnie and being a crazy crime fighting robot i dont know why he never really took of after that his shortlived comic book except for guest star status...in the 90s he disapeared until now he is in nexwave agents of hate. and still doesnt get the respect a half human half robot "cyborg" should get.

3.overlooked hero number 3!
last but not least everones favorite fowl
HOWARD THE DUCK!
now i some of you will know that howard was originaly a marvel comics superhero but some of you will just recognize him from a movie and not know of his background in the comics field he first appered as a dream of the man thing in fear 19 in 1972 steve gerbers little joke around the office howard from an alternate reality were ducks rule but soon howard the duck got his own comic book. which ran for ameasley run of a bout 30 issues before being cancelled.
THE MOVIE
one of the worst movies of all time (or so ive herd ive never acctually seen it my self)it proved that even high and mighty george lucas in his prime could produce a flop so big it would make movie fans cringe when ever they heard the name howard the duck.the movie was probobly essential to the ducks downfall.history of the howard the duck movie george lucas had always been a fan of marvel comics and loved howard and when an old college buddy of his wanted to put howard on the big screen lucas was in and threw a bunch of his indianna jhones and star wars money at the howard movie producing it with an iron fist! it was the first movie to have phone line to call into and get info on the movie it also had a giant billbord with a cigar coming out of an egg it was hugely anticipatted and when it finaly hit thaerters!...it raked in less than i made on a lemonadide stand(well more than that but you get my point) howard was shunned from popular culture and never quacked agian...why did the howard movie flop? simple howard was cute in the comics he was mean cinical and unimpolyed not a cute little duck in rock band... if howard new what they did to him in his movie hed cough up his feathers...one day soon there has been discussion of a new howard movie were howard will be computer animated and more to the roots of the comic book(and no making out with a human)though howard cant nessaceraily be billed(no pun intended) as a super hero he has accasionaly fought villans and had many jobs including running for presedint,learning kung fu and being a cab driver.

well thats it for the overlooked heores of marvel. if you liked it ill considermaking a part two theres a lot more heroes that need love to.
(and dont complain if my spelling isnt perfect give me a breack)

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I just wanted to let you know your suggestion in my forum section--as insulting as it may be--materialized into an article. It was thanks to what you said and this bit I read a while back on Wikipedia about Retrojunk.com

"Articles submitted from readers cover everything from music of the times to popular cartoons. Some criticism has emerged from a few members that many of the articles do not measure up in a professional and sometimes even an informed manner."

So, I guess, I'm not the only one upset with low quality articles. I'm just willing to put my opinion out there.

And before you judge me too harshly on how I criticized BS100, read this quotation from his first article (which is now on the Back Pages by the way):

"5.the invinclible*iron man *=on almost all of his comic book covers it shows him gettong his ass handed to him, nonthe less he always comes out on top at the end. as billionair industriolest(i just botched the spelling of that)he made the coolest costume ever!"

See that last line? He knew he made an error and he still didn't bother to look it up and fix it! Tell me, is that what you really want for the articles here? Should that really be okay? Thirteen years old he may be, but that's just lazy.

Yes, I make typos. In fact, I know my articles hold a typo or two or three. But let me assure you, it comes after a lot of proof reading and it really bothers me when I find them after I've submitted the work for posting. I'm not demanding perfection--only a fool demands perfection. I never say that in my comments. And I definitely don't expect it in the forums or the comment sections--places of passionate reply. I just want people to try harder in their articles? Is that really so bad? Yes I'm direct, but only because I see so many comment writer's praising someone's work, while completely ignoring the blatant and numerous errors that really shouldn't be there. To be honest, I've been noticing it for a while now and BS100's article was the straw that broke the camel's back. I try really hard to make quality articles for this site. Are you saying I shouldn't? That Retrojunk readers don't deserve it? That people who write articles shouldn't even bother to pick up a dictionary? They should just apologize mid-sentence and everything will be okay?

I hope not everyone is so accepting of low quality articles or this site is in for some dark times indeed.

Hey Knites, before picking on this guy for spelling errors maybe you should check out your own comments. If you're going to write a book and call it a comment, at least make sure that YOUR spelling is correct. I liked this article. I thought it was a great idea and forgive me, but I loved the Howard the Duck comics when I was a kid. The articles I don't like are the ones that are extremely short and obviously didn't take more than 5 minutes. Damn, I've never had the misfortune of coming across someone so negative and critical. What an a%@hole.

Like I said in your personal comment section, I believe you are passionate about writing. There are so few 13 year olds these days that would take hours of their free time and write. Personally, I'm really impressed with you in this regard.

Look, why don't you embrace my criticism rather than defend your poor spelling ability? You seem to prefer to accept your sad state of spelling affairs rather than improve. That's so sad and what made me take an interest in you in the first place.

Write an article where you give a damn about your spelling and I'll get off your back. I promise. I'll even help you if you want. I'm really a nice guy despite what people say or what you're probably thinking about me right now. :-)

Seriously though, I want to see if you buckle under my pressure or actually improve. So far, it sounds like you're buckling. So, you gonna give up, BS100 or are you gonna prove my bat-ass wrong and show me you can write one hell of an article? Time will tell.

And, of course, you could just ignore everything I write. I mean, I'm just somebody you don't know. However, I'm clearly hitting a sensitive spot if you're giving me the time of day. So, if you do care about what I have to say and improve, well, then, we both win don't we?

ok i am a "he" and my grammer taecher is really great but spelling just isnt one of my high points...im sorry this doesnt meet your high standerd for literary excellence. im not stupid!! im just not book smart.knites do you have anything better to do than say how bad i am at everything.

Admittedly, Deidara was a bit harsh, EightiesCrazy, but you have to admit this article and the last article submitted by Battlestar100 is below standard. Sure the topic is an excellent choice, but there are far better written and better spelled, pieces on this topic on this site. I'm actually surprised so many who read this site accept poor quality writing so readily.

Let's turn it around for a minute. You defend Battlestar100 against Deidara, which to extent is a positive move--the Sweedish drunk thing was a bit low. But why doesn't Battlestar100 care enough to take the time to spell right for you? He just needs to give you an apology, a mispelled apology I might add, and you accept that? He doesn't even care enough to spell the apology right!

Com'on EightiesCrazy, there are alot of authours on this site who take the time to give us a quality read. BS100 doesn't give a damn. This article belongs on the back pages. We can support new writers without accepting a lower standard of writting can't we?

Now, admittedly, I'm sure many will read what I've written here and think--Relax, Knites, it's just a website for popculture. The moderators let this article on the site so they don't really give a care about spelling either. Well, it's fine if you feel that way, but isn't it sad state of affairs? I wonder if Battlestar100 would pitch a fit if all the comics he loves decided to settle for a lower standard of spelling and picture placement.

Finally, people who don't read comics often accuse comic book readers of being unintelligent people who can't read or write at an appropriate standard. Everytime BS100 and to an extent the rest of us let an article like this slide without criticism we prove them right.

I mean no offense to BS1000. I simply want him to care about what he writes. Right now, he (or she) doesn't.

If anyone deserves a beating over this, it's his English teachers and perhaps his parents. If he's gotten this far and is mispelling words like "break", they deserve to have their asses kicked--severely.

Now, BS100, if you are an English as a Second Language, English as a Foriegn Language, or a Special Needs student I take back every criticism I've given you and praise your article as an achievement. However, if you are simply lazy, happier to pick your nose than pick up a dictionary, then I stand by what I've written here.

And, finally, if your looking for some help, BS100, feel free to e-mail me a draft of your article and I'll help you clean it up. I'm serious. I feel their should be no criticism without support.

hmmm.....what about moon knight? (refferred to as 'albino batman' to some) i mean no one really knew him and his series was short. i think there was only ....what, 32 issues? hes really lesser known. i bet stan lee doesnt even remember him.

I see you paid a little more attention to your spelling this time, Battlestar100. Good on you. However, this piece still needs alot of work. Your complete lack of appropriate capitalization and awkward formating still makes this piece an uncomfortable read. Better than last time, but not woth a thumbs up yet.